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Federal Judge Rules AT&T Can Purchase Time Warner for $85 Billion
When Makan Delrahim—head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—filed a federal lawsuit in November to prevent AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, questions arose as to whether the former White House counsel was unduly influenced by Donald Trump’s seemingly personal vendetta against CNN, a company owned by Time Warner. The DOJ insisted…
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White Family Beats Down 2 Police Officers. Miraculously, No One Gets Shot
This is one of those stories where, if I were writing it about a black family, it would have an entirely different headline and an entirely different outcome, because that’s how these things work in our society right now. A husband, wife, their son and an unidentified juvenile relative were all arrested in Middle River,…
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How Much Does It Cost to Find Out if the Trump Campaign Colluded With the Russians? $17 Million So Far
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017, and tasked with finding out whether or not members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the year since his appointment, his team has managed to secure guilty pleas from Donald Trump’s foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos,…
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#Flint: Water Was Flagged as ‘Poor’ Weeks Before Gov. Snyder Ended Water-Distribution Program
As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water for 1,475 days. Gov. Rick Snyder ended free bottled-water distribution in the city on April 6, citing test results that showed the city’s water supply tested below the federal action level for lead—but environmental experts in the state had warned that the…
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‘Not All White People’: A Definitive Disclaimer
I wrote about white people gentrifying fried-bologna sandwiches last week. I knew as soon as I hit publish on the post what type of response it was going to get, but I published it anyway because the kinds of white people who would turn a fried-bologna sandwich into some type of hipster happy meal, complete…
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White People Have Gentrified Fried-Bologna Sandwiches
I was going to sign off for the night, but I have one more post for y’all. It appears that white people have gentrified the struggle meal that put the “struggle meal” in struggle meals: fried bologna. I would not have believed it myself if I hadn’t seen it drift down my Twitter timeline ever…
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#MeToo: Ann Curry Reported Matt Lauer for Sexual Harassment in 2012
Former Today co-host Ann Curry reported Matt Lauer for sexual harassment in 2012 on behalf of a female NBC staffer who was afraid for her job and asked Curry to help her. Curry told the Washington Post: “A woman approached me and asked me tearfully if I could help her. She was afraid of losing…
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Even in White Neighborhoods, Black People Get Arrested More for Marijuana
File this under “Yeah, We Knew That Already, but Thanks for the Confirmation”: An analysis of police data shows that blacks and Hispanics make up the majority of arrests for marijuana possession—even in areas where the population is mostly white or other ethnic groups. WNYC conducted the analysis, and its findings were confirmed by retired…
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Why Isn’t Jeff Sessions Recusing Himself From the Michael Cohen Investigation?
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was quick to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. It is a decision that caused him to lose favor with Donald Trump, who famously said that he never would have appointed Sessions as attorney general if he had known the recusal was going to happen. Since then, Sessions has been…
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#NetNeutrality: The Open Internet Isn’t Dead Just Yet
Although you may have seen news reports to the contrary, the rules of open internet are still in place as of Monday, April 23. Yes, the Federal Communications Commission published its “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” in the Federal Register 60 days ago, signifying its intent to repeal the Obama-era protections that kept net neutrality in…
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